One of the boys in the Brentwood Paediatric Group is named after Brandon Tartikoff, the President of NBC from 1980 to 1991. As Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989) was an ABC series, it may have been meant as a jibe against him.
One of the boys in the Brentwood Paediatric Group is named Bobby Iger. This is a nod to entertainment executive Bob Iger, who had just been named as head of ABC Entertainment at the time.
Hector Gonzales was born in 1976.
This episode takes place from November 11 to November 13, 1989.